Music-stand



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAOOB DAVID, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

MUSIC-STAN D.

Specification forming part or" Letters Patent No. 50,460, dated October17, 18(5.

To all 'whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, JACOB DAVID, of No. 10 St. Felix street, in the cityof Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a newand useful Improvement in Music-Stands, and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full` clear, and exact description thereof, which willenable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, referencebeing hadto the accompanying drawings, forni ing part of thisspecication, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of my music-stand set upfor use. Fig. 2 is a side view. Fig. 3 is a View of a portion ofthenote-board.` Fig. 4 represents the main rod. Fig. 5 represents theupperrod,which screwsinto thenote-board. Fig.A 6 is a top view of thesocket D, the main rod G, and the rod J. Fig. 7 shows the iniddle barofthe note-board, with its spring-board T. Fig. 8 is a separate view ofthe cap C, which contines the various pieces composing the note-board.Fig. 9 is an end view of the note-board when folded. Fig. 10 isaperipherical view of the cap C applied to the noteboard after it hasbeen folded. Fig. 1l is a plan view of thebottom pieces which form therest of the note-board. Figs. 12 and 13 are an outside and an insideview ot' one ofthe legs of the stand. Fig. 14 is a detailed View of thesocket D and that part of the apparatus which forms the legs B. Fig. 15represents the apparatus folded together in the form of a walklng-cane.Fig. 16 is a detailed view of the ferrule F which forms the bottombf thecane.

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The object of this invention is to produce a music-stand which shall becapable of being folded into a small compass, so that it can becarriedin the hand from place to place with convenience and ease; and itconsists in constructin g the several-parts of the stand so that whenplaced together they present the appearance of a cane, in which form itcan be carried by a musician to the place where he is to perform.

The apparatus, when folded up, presents the appearance `shown in Fig.15, where A designates the part that forms the note-board, and B thepart that forms the pedestal.

One end of the part A is inserted into the socket D, and its other endis confined by a cap, C, which is formed like a cane-head. The lower endofthe part B is confined by a ferrule, F, while its upper end isinserted into the socket D, to which its several divisions B areconnected by hinges E. The divisions B are three in number, and each isasegmentot' a hollow cylinder. Therefore when they are brought togetherthey form ahollow cylinder, which receives the main rod Gr, on whoselower end is received the ferrule F, both when the divisions are broughttogether, as in Fig. 15, and also when separated, as in Figs. 1 and 2.The upper ends of the legs or divisions B are severally hinged to thelower edge ofthe socket D, within which socket the said ends arealsoiuserted. The said ends, when the legs are stretched outward, comeagainst the main rod G, and in order to enable them to endure the wearand strain which will come upon them, I shoe them byinsertinginto theiredges metallic pieces M, whose upper parts protrude from the ends of thedivisions and come in contact with the outside of the rod Gr.

The socket D has a diaphragm, I, near its lower end, through which therod G is free to lnove. This diaphragm has a notch, b, on its side,through which a projection, H, on the lower end of the rod-G, is passedwhen itis desired to lock the rod to the socket. At such times, afterthe projection has passed the notch, the rod is turned partly round, soas to bring the projection over an unbroken part of the diaphragm, asseen in Fig. 6. The ferruleFis neXt screwed on the end of the rod untilits widest part has crowded the legs B outward to the greatest extentallowed by the metal shoes M, which is when the ends of the shoes restfirmly against the rod Gr. It is evident that when the ferrule is thusscrewed up and the projection H is on the upper side of the diaphragmthe rod G will be held rigidly in place and the legs B be kept apart andheld stiffly and securely, the bearing-points of said legs being threein number, to wit-z the ends of the shoes M, which press against thesides of the rod Gr, the place of the hinge E where the outside of thelegs come against thelower edge ofthe socket D, andthe place where theinsides of the legs are pressed against by the broad part of theferrule'.

The upper end of the tubular rod G has a setn screw, L, by means ofwhich the small rod J is held at any desired height in the rod G. Whenthe apparatus is packed andfolded up the small rod is allowed to rundown within the other; but when the apparatus is to be set up it isdrawn out, as shown in Figs. l and 2, and its end 7s is screwed into asocket, O, made for it in the back ofthe bar S ofthe note-board, therebysupporting the note-board.

Thenote-board, when folded, presents the appearance seen in Fig. 15,where it is designated by the letter A. lt is composed of four sections,one section, S, which is part of the peri phery of the portion A, andwhich is therefore convex on one side, said convex side being that intowhich the end K ofthe rod J is screwed. The other side of the bar S isiat, and carries a metallic spring-bar, T, on its face. Another section,V, also half-round, forms the base of the rest ot the note-board, anditis hinged at X Xto another section, Q, the hinges being so placed asto allow the sections Q V to take a position at right angles to eachother. The fourth section, U, is flat, and is confined between thesections S and Q when the noteboard is folded. The ends ofthe sections US are mortised, as seen at the left-hand end of Fig. l0, to receive themetal rods P P, which, when folded, lie over each other on the face ofsection Q, towhich they are pivoted, and when extended at right anglesforni the ends of the note-board, and furnish the means of connectingsections S and U to the rest of the noteboard, as seen in Fig. l. Theends of bar T are brought behind sections U and Q respectively byrotating it on its pivot.

It is evident that the note-board can be adjusted to any desirableheight by securing the rod J at a higher point than that shown in Fig. lof the drawings.

The parts A and B of the apparatus are in this example made of wood, andthe other parts of metal.

When it is desired to fold up the musicstand the musician lifts the barsor sections U S from the note-board, in the meantime unscrewing the rodJ from section S, folds down the bars T P P and lays the severalsections V, Q, S, and U together, the rods Y from the back of section Qpassing through holes a in the sections U S, and places the cap C on oneend of the body thus formed. He then lowers the rod J within the rod G,unscrews the ferrule F, so as to release the legs B', rotates the rod Guntil its nib or projection H articulates with the notch b, when it isslipped through the notch, and the socket His drawn upon the rod untilthe free ends of the legs have cleared the upper edge of the ferrule,when the latter is screwed up on the rod so as to embrace and confinesaid legs, as seen in Fig. l5. The lefthand end of the socket is nextslipped over the right-hand end ofthe post A, when the transformation ofthe music-stand into a cane is completed.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as .new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- A fblding music-stand, constructed substantially asabove shown.v l

JACOB DAVID.

Witnesses M. M. LIVINGSTON, C. L. TorLIFF.

